# 7 violet - the crown chakra

Finally we arrive at the seventh, or the crown chakra, which is located just a few inches above the head. This is the ‘halo’ that we often see above the head in pictures of Jesus and the saints. The good news is we all have a halo, we just can’t see it because we don’t use our third eye enough! This is the chakra that connects us with the divine, our higher selves, and All That Is. Its color is a violet, mixed with other colors that we cannot see on our color spectrum. The relationship at this level is with God, and with spirit.

The crown chakra completes all the others; death urge, appetite and false ideas of lack, power, letting love in, delivery, insight, they are all connected to spirit, and who we are at our core being. It also comes full circle, and can be seen as a ‘higher’ aspiration of the first. The death urge is strongest in the first and seventh chakras. Questions such as purpose, drive, survival arise again. Only now, at the seventh chakra, these issues are looked at through new eyes. At this level it is becoming clear that there isn’t any purpose to life, at least not as we saw it. Whatever purpose there was we put it there. We put it there to explain why we’re here, and then forgot we put it there, and continued to use it to justify what is often a ‘meaningless existence’.

At a more awakened level we see that having no purpose is not something fearful at all, as it would be perceived at the first chakra, but something really liberating. The struggle to preserve life is insane, when we know life comes from a source that never ends. So there is no survival need in the first place. Equally insane is any attempt to feed an appetite that is unreal, fill a void that is not there, or search for power that is illusory.

But this awakening comes about not by any denial of those things, death, the appetites, power, the self – that would be running away – but by accepting them and integrating them into the greater self. When this awakening comes then is the crown chakra really open and pure universal energy flowing into this chakra, and all the chakras. Truly then can we say with Buddha, ‘I am awake’.

It is through this chakra that Chi, or Ki, or Prana, as its variously known enters. As a Reiki master I am very familiar with working with energy at this chakra. Also the Oneness blessing is given again through the crown chakra. and while this chakra connects us with our divines selves, it’s equally important to be in balance in the others. someone living in the clouds or ‘on another planet’, is probably out of balance.

Common ailments of the seventh chakra include migraine and earache. Many healers tell me they experience sudden headaches after giving a healing or doing energy work, which disappear just as mysteriously as they came. Deeper fear is often experienced as confusion, or as depression, an illness that while reveals no external symptoms, can be the most difficult to bear.

If you have unresolved issues, or experience ailments in this area, it doesn’t mean that you are not spiritual, a word that unfortunately is bandied about too much nowadays. It can mean that there is some part of your life that you’re not looking at, or are blind to. This includes a lot of ‘unconscious’ material. If we bring the old first chakra stuff to this level, its preternatural fear becomes existential angst. In confusion it is easy to slip into arrogance and inflated sense of our greatness. The seventh chakra, despite its association with things spiritual, can be the most slippery, ‘spiritual pride’ being one of the common pitfalls.

So one chakra isn’t really ‘higher’ than another. Failure to deal with day to day existence, control our appetites, or temper our power can create confusion in the seventh. Retreating to some kind of smug spiritual solipsism can affect balance in our relationships, leading to us doubting ourselves and our inner resources, making us fearful of unconditional love, of the heart. Can you see how they are all connected? Knowing about the chakras helps to illuminate why things work, and the interconnectivity of things. For example, when I developed sciatica recently I knew immediately about the part of my life that wanted to move forward and the part that was hesitant. All lower back is first chakra stuff. Then upon doing some work with the Alexander Technique I discovered there was a lot of ‘holding’ in other parts of my body, including my head and shoulders. Then when I got really down to work, meditating and breathing on the issue I discovered I was still holding old emotional trauma in my body, which is more second chakra stuff. But instead of getting abdominal pain it manifested at the first. This I think, is because of a combination of things, the unwillingness to move forward being but one.

So please don’t decide that something, going on at one chakra level, means one specific thing only. The whole chakra system is much more complex, as indeed are you!

Enquiry

Do you find yourself getting overwhelmed by ‘trivial’ things, especially when they pile up?

Do you meditate?

Conclusion

For the purposes of this work it was necessary to examine the chakras and their colors in ascending order. I advise caution though, as any such explanation, however expedient, risks oversimplification. In reality, it is important to remember the chakras operate up and down the scale, and interchange with each other.

Neither is any of this prescriptive. The chakras connect us with the etheric and astral body, essentially they are spiritual cleansing portals. Their effects on the physical body, if at all, may depend on many things, our soul’s journey being only one. When writing this piece I debated with myself whether to mention the diseases connected with them at all, and decided that since so many very common ailments occur in or around body parts, for centuries associated with particular chakras, that I would be doing a disservice not to mention them. Always remember, nothing is absolute. For example, if someone develops an ulcer, it doesn’t necessarily mean their third chakra is out of balance, and it certainly doesn’t mean it’s ‘not working’. There can be many reasons why one would develop ulcers, and the primary one is to do with our thoughts. But awareness of the chakras will help throw more light on what’s going in all round, not just in one location. And always remember seek and heed medical advice for any illness.

Also there are no ‘shoulds’ here, so please don’t use this material to feel certain things need fixing at certain areas of your body. Remember you are already perfect. All illness is in the mind, and it is our thoughts about illness that we create disruptions in the energy flow in the first place. In the end our thoughts about ourselves, and about things, override all other evaluations of the body.

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